Enders v. District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “this jurisdiction has not required that the District be given notice of an impending suit in a single document”
• noting that “a judgment in favor of the defendant [under 42 U.S.C. § 1983] is not necessarily controlling on liability under a common law cause of action”
• “The gravamen of a complaint for false arrest or false imprisonment is an unlawful detention.”
• ‘“False arrest’ is indistinguishable as a practical matter from the common law tort of ‘false imprisonment.’ ”
• “Hamrick admits he caused the offensive contact with the Plaintiff; Maddux was in fact grabbed and put up against a vehicle by Hamrick.”
• “ ‘False arrest’ is indistinguishable as a practical matter from ... ‘false imprisonment’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).